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New comment by fredsir in "Arc Browser 1.0"

fredsir — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:47:22 +0000

Just tried the compact tabs in Safari and that’s a great design!

New comment by fredsir in "Arc Browser 1.0"

fredsir — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:18:18 +0000

It’s great at least on macOS and iOS.

Profiles on the macOS version made me switch to it from Safari as my daily driver.

New comment by fredsir in "There’s no such thing as affordable housing"

fredsir — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:35:21 +0000

That’s an overly simplistic and very rosy eyed take in my opinion.

New comment by fredsir in "There’s no such thing as affordable housing"

fredsir — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:29:40 +0000

Is that ignoring all the homeless people in the states, the people living in trailers, in their cars and so on while working multiple jobs?

New comment by fredsir in "There’s no such thing as affordable housing"

fredsir — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:22:04 +0000

A lot of people never buy a home. And to my knowledge the number of people who will never be able to afford to buy a home is only increasing.

So yes indeed, renting is not my preferred way of dealing with housing in our society, but it is the reality for a lot of people.

New comment by fredsir in "There’s no such thing as affordable housing"

fredsir — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:15:06 +0000

They have to find another solution.

But instead of that lasting forever since their situation never becomes so that they can afford to buy a nice home, which is the case for many people, they only have to deal with that for 10 years at which point they get a lot of choices for nice homes at an affordable price.

It’s the same here in Denmark.

New comment by fredsir in "Making a Maradona: Meat Consumption and Soccer Prowess"

fredsir — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 20:18:45 +0000

Or simply that a diet not meeting the nutritional needs can be correlated to worse athletic performance. And since meat is dense in nutrition, and since places with less meat available sometimes is low income, I think it’s plausible.

New comment by fredsir in "Ask HN: Which book are you reading, since when?"

fredsir — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 05:22:02 +0000

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.

I've heard about, and tried to get into the Discworld a few times, but it never really happened. I think I tried Guard! Guards! twice. Maybe I was in a different headspace, or maybe it was just not for me. But then I tried Small Gods, and it's the best thing I've read since (the nutrition label on the back of) sliced bread. No, really, it's lovely! I'll be done tomorrow according to my Kobos statistics, and then I just need to figure out what I'm gonna read next. Cannot wait to find out about all the things out there in the Discworld that I don't know about yet.

New comment by fredsir in "There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get a lot worse"

fredsir — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 21:51:33 +0000

No, we’re worried about the precedent it sets.

New comment by fredsir in "There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get a lot worse"

fredsir — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 19:58:52 +0000

This[1] comment explains it very well. It just cements why I moved back to Linux on my laptop, and will be moving to something running open source software on my phone, and open hardware on all my devices.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28159353

New comment by fredsir in "There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get a lot worse"

fredsir — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 19:17:46 +0000

> “Anti-government” is absurdly vague.

That's the point. It's not an open to the public list, it's secret and controlled by few. It can contain whatever they want it to contain.

> Not how this system works.

That's absurdly naive.

New comment by fredsir in "There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get a lot worse"

fredsir — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 19:16:07 +0000

Where there is a slope, riders will come. The only way to prevent people from riding the slope is to never built the slope in the first place.

New comment by fredsir in "There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get a lot worse"

fredsir — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:36:48 +0000

Except the list of hashes is a black box. Today it's child porn, tomorrow it's anti-government or something similar. It's a slippery slope that's only going in one direction.

New comment by fredsir in "There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get a lot worse"

fredsir — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:26:34 +0000

If you think it's not spreading to Android phones, you are naive. Apple set the precedent, now it's gonna come to every mainstream device.

The only option is to abandon ship.

New comment by fredsir in "On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story"

fredsir — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 11:48:55 +0000

There’s the whole NSO Pegasus that answers for how regarding remotely. However social engineering is also possible. Drunk out in town makes an easy target for a skilled social engineer.

All in all - it’s very possible.

New comment by fredsir in "On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story"

fredsir — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 08:28:22 +0000

Now we just need to place a photo on our opponents phones - journalists, politicians, someone whos job you want, you name it - and their phone will call the police itself and bring the proof too, and it's their burden to prove their innocence.

New comment by fredsir in "Airyx OS"

fredsir — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 06:06:30 +0000

> This reminds me of vegan bacon.

> If you dont want to eat meat, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of eating meat?

What is this taste, texture, and sensation of meat in regards to bacon you're talking about? Bacon is the opposite of the actual taste, texture, and sensation of meat. It's cooked, salted, and processed to give it that taste, texture, and sensation.

It's the same with people making fun of plant-based burgers and sausages. Well, guess what, burgers and sausages don't exist in nature, neither as meat nor plant. Well, actually... Cucumbers and a few other plants seem quite like sausages. Anyways. The burger, sausage, and bacon form factor is what makes it attractive. It's why people have liked it for so long, and why people like it still when they switch to a plant-based diet.

I guess it's the same reason why some people are into Airyx OS.

New comment by fredsir in "The Pleasures of Tsundoku: How I learned to stop worrying and love book piles"

fredsir — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 05:54:48 +0000

Libraries, especially public ones, are a wonderful thing.

New comment by fredsir in "The Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect"

fredsir — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 13:04:07 +0000

Bugs are not really problem if they have amble places to live and gather nutrition and so on.

We have a wild garden, and people often ask if there are not bugs everywhere, and tell us they like grass to keep the bugs away. Well quite contrary - our findings are, that in our wild garden, bugs are around the plants, in the plants, but they are not are problem in the spaces we have created for ourself at all. I think people have misunderstood why insect swarm.

New comment by fredsir in "Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful"

fredsir — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 06:17:12 +0000

> In Japan, in summer, you don't survive without aircon. 35 C with 90+% humidity, fans and opening windows won't help you anymore.

How did people survive until the widespread use of AC?